Pushing myself through throw-up zone!
June 27, 2007So many excuses not to workout today! Only got 3 hours of sleep, had to work a 12 hour day, my food schedule was messed up, there is always excuses right? I am so proud of myself lately b/c I identify these excuses and I do not allow myself to rationalize "why I shouldn’t work out".
So today was the day I meet with my trainer (my weekly appt.) He had been excited about a new leg workout for me. Being a novice at taking supplements I drank a protien shake 30 min before my session thinking that would be ok. I quickly realize on my first set of my first exercise my stomach is not chillin with the protien.
My workout looked like this: (all with 30 sec rest btwn sets)
leg ext. 3×30, squat press 3×25, standing single leg curl 3×25 each leg, Leg Press 3×25, seated leg curl 3×25, and finally walking lunges the length of gym 6 times (about 40 lunges each way).
I almost threw up so many times it was awful! It was such a mental challenge, physically my body was about to just fall over at the end, not to mention I was sick to my stomach. My trainer was screaming at me! "tight stomach, chest up, deeper squats, 90 degrees, don’t pause, slow those reps down," In between sets he was trying to get me to throw up in the trash can to get it over with. (He says if you puke you have to come right back and finish!)
Looking back I love knowing that I mentally was able to zone all the "excuses" out and push threw the pain and the nausea and just "DO IT"!
I look forward the that good soreness tomorrow
Bring it on!






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